Archive: Events
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Together, We Are Super-Human: How Technology Gives Communities Super Powers
Featuring Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger; co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of novels Pirate Cinema (Tor Teen, 2012), For the Win (2010) and the bestselling Little Brother (2008). His latest novel is Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother.
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Panics, Politics and Party: How Financial Panics Defined and Redefined American Politics, 1789 to the Present
In his new book, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson shows that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation’s history. Join us for a conversation with Nelson about how financial panics have shaped American politics.
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So Rich, So Poor: Reviving the Fight Against Poverty
Join us for a conversation with Peter Edelman, one of the nation’s foremost champions of the poor, about his book, So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America.
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50 years after Michael Harrington's The Other America: Where is the War on Poverty?
In 1962, Michael Harrington’s The Other America became a catalyst for “The War on Poverty,” leading to the later establishment of Medicare, Medicaid, and other social security benefits. Using archival footage and interviews with diverse thinkers, Michael Harrington and Today’s Other America: Corporate Power and Inequality (1999) chronicles the life of Harrington and the relevance of his ideas in modern America.
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50 Years After Michael Harrington's The Other America
Fifty years after the publication of The Other America, Michael Harrington’s groundbreaking study of poverty in the United States, a panel of progressive thinkers will discuss the persistence of poverty and the continuing relevance of Harrington’s ideas to today.
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KI Research Director Jennifer Luff Discusses New Book
On September 28, 2012, the Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted a book discussion featuring KI research director Jennifer Luff, author of Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars. Published in May 2012, Commonsense Anticommunism is an account of the American Federation of Labor’s post-WWI efforts to combat communism while trying to simultaneously defend workers’ civil liberties and right to organize.
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Reception for Alianza Campesina
The Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted a reception welcoming Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, a national network founded to advocate for the rights of farmworker women.
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Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars
KI research director Jennifer Luff discussed her new book Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars.
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KI Hosts Discussion with Labor Leaders from Bangladesh
On September 20, 2012, the Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted a discussion with Kalpona Akter and Babul Akhter, leaders of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity. The event was co-sponsored by the Workers Rights Consortium and the International Labor Rights Forum.
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These Jobs Are Killing Us: The Murder of Aminul Islam and the Growing Labor Rights Crisis in Bangladesh
Kalpona Akter and Babul Akhter, leaders of the Bangladesh Center for Solidarity, discussed the murder of labor leader and union organizer Aminul Islam and the struggles of labor rights advocates in a country where garment workers earn less than $40 per month and face deadly health and safety risks making clothes for American retailers.
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